Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka

“How do we see ourselves – and how did people in different historical periods want to be seen? The special exhibition Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka at the Gemäldegalerie (Old Masters Gallery) ‒ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, invites viewers on a fascinating journey through the history of portraiture. Unusual juxtapositions of works spanning six centuries reveal striking similarities, bringing the works alive and providing opportunities to reflect on presentations by self and others, staging, roles, and character. Masterpieces by artists such as Botticelli and Lempicka, Mino da Fiesole and Rogier van der Weyden, Dürer and Giorgione, or Rubens and Gainsborough come into direct contact with one another. …”